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TIL there is a 100% tax on gasoline in Denmark.

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daZ TIL that the average person consumes 0 spiders in his/her lifetime
nenmB TIL In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because half the project staff used imperial measurements and the other half used metric.
YewB TIL that a single drop of seawater contains 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, and 1000 small protozoans
d8aZd TIL A hot spring hotel in Japan is the world's oldest and has been running continuously for roughly 1300 years by the 52 generations of the same family.
oBPeo TIL blind from birth, Seve Fyffe, 67, began training at age six and now holds a fifth dan belt in Aikido. "…if someone was foolish enough to attack me they'd be in for a shock. I can fight up to six people at a time. The hardest is four because they are coming at you from four different directions”